United Nations — Somalia has pledged to strengthen security for commercial vessels passing along its coastline as concerns grow over the safety of key international shipping routes, officials said Monday. Somalia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Abukar Baalle, stressed the importance of safeguarding the country’s territorial waters, saying Somalia’s maritime security has implications far beyond…
Four millennia ago, a Sumerian king, his frontier beset by nomadic tribes fleeing prolonged drought in their own lands, ordered the construction of the world’s first border wall: a 177km-long boundary laid in stone between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Since humanity’s earliest city-states and kingdoms arose in ancient Mesopotamia, walls, ditches and fences have defended…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 22. Kyrgyzstan views its participation in the 2nd meeting of the Ministers of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), held on October 23–24, 2025, in Baku, as a platform for the comprehensive development of industrial potential, technological integration, and scientific cooperation, a source from…
Shorouk Express Grzegorz Kinelski, CEO of Enea and vice-president of PKEE, added: “We must stay on the fast track we are already on. Investments in renewables, storage and CCGT [combined cycle gas turbine] units will not only enhance energy security but also support economic growth and help keep energy prices affordable for Polish consumers.” The…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 17. The economic outlook for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan (MENAP), and the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) remains broadly positive, though challenges persist, said Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), during a press briefing, Trend reports….
Shorouk Express The AfD won nearly 15 percent of votes in the state, coming in third place, according to the initial results. In the last municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia five years ago, the party won 5.1 percent of votes. In the city of Gelsenkirchen, a former center of heavy industry, the AfD candidate appeared…
Winter calls for longer nights and shorter days without sunlight. With cold and flu season on the rise, plus seasonal affective disorder rearing its ugly head, our immune systems take a hit. One nutrient that is great at fighting against attacks on our bodies is vitamin D. Unfortunately, with longer hours of darkness, getting our…
